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Q & A: Mark Salvatus

Mark Salvatus is an artist based in Manila. His solo show c_rafts opened at the Vargas Museum on the 17th of June 2011 alongside a series of exhibits honoring the sesquicentennial of Jose Rizal. This interview was conducted via email. Do you get a lot of interviews? Is being interviewed fun? Yup! It’s fun sharing [...]

Q & A Fest

Dispatches from A Fest 2, a cultural exchange program better known as a week-long series of gigs Interviews by ALICE SARMIENTO Photographs by KEITH DADOR Organized by local indie outfit, Kindassault records, A Fest features regional and local talent in a week-long festival of indie pop, rock, shoegaze, and electronica. Besides generating exposure and album [...]

Pepe Diokno Talks First Films

“You can’t separate your politics from your art because it’s part of human thought: what makes our politics makes our society. If you think that politics should be separate from art, then what would you make art about?” Not to be confused with the older Jose “KaPepe” Diokno, Pepe Diokno is in his senior year [...]

Ala Paredes Illustrates

Ala Paredes is a name that would send some synapses to regions of our brains that we don’t usually tap. You may remember her as a video jockey for the local music channel MYX, or that long-limbed model for the clothing brand Penshoppe, or that striking girl who appeared in several commercials back in the [...]

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